What Is This Massive Fish

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As the title says.

 

[weejen]

some kind of cat fish i would say

 

[Nick16]

one of these.


Arapaima - Arapaima gigas

 

[WILDER]

It's massive.
Hope they let it go again after the picture was taken.

 

[Nick16]

check this for more info.

LINK HERE

 

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Thanks nick16 for the info. My nephew was looking and asked me what it was, i'll show him this thread.

I'm with you wilder, hope they put it back, it's a lovely specimen

Just read this on wikipedia and was shocked, what a horrible way to die:

Since the arapaima needs to swim up to breathe air, traditional arapaima fishers often catch them by first harpooning them and then clubbing them dead.

 

[WILDER]

Poor things. Bet that one didn't survive then.

 

[gaz gun man]

Just read this on wikipedia and was shocked, what a horrible way to die:

Since the arapaima needs to swim up to breathe air, traditional arapaima fishers often catch them by first harpooning them and then clubbing them dead.

What else do you expect them to do? Put it to sleep with clove oil? they're traditional hunters, and no doubt been doing it for thousands of years.

Nice fish, I bet it made good eatin'

 

[Nick16]

aparently there is about 70KG of meat on one of those things and its delicious.

 

[england]

these fish are beautiful,there is a couple of link's here
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oWeTDanjY...feature=related

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlivRLmbBp8...feature=related

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=-40zthUeBSc...feature=related

 

[Inchworm]

It's a food fish.......they eat them.

 

[three-fingers]

What shocks me is the amount of people who try to keep these things in aquariums.

They are awesome fish though.

 

[snowflake311]

Oh my gosh I saw a show about this fish on animal planet. It's a ARAPAIMA the show is called river monsters pretty cool show.

Here is the link
http/animal.discovery.com/fish/river-mon.../arapaima-fish/

 

[drobbyb]

I saw that one too! Impressive fish!

 

[San O Fisher]

I saw that one too! Impressive fish!

that is a great show! i got hooked in a couple weeks ago. I missed that episode but I know you can see them online! The one about the aligator gar is pretty cool.